Free Time? Not Likely, for Time Is Anything but Free

Because make no mistake, time is a currency. There is a cost to how you spend it. The cost might be a trade-off, like choosing one activity over another, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that this is a free exchange.

This is why I have never understood it when people ask, “How do you spend your free time?” Time isn’t free. As a valuable, nonrenewable resource, it’s actually quite expensive.

Setting the “free” part aside, it’s important to remember that having the option to think about how you spend your time is a luxury many people can’t afford. All their time is already spent. For some, time is allocated, from birth through the rest of their lives, to work and survival.